tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Science, institutional archives and open access: an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Science, institutional archives and open access: an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions | Poltronieri et al. Journal of Experimental Clinical Cancer Research 2010 29 168 http content 29 1 168 Journal of Experimental Clinical Cancer Research RESEARCH Open Access Science institutional archives and open access an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions Elisabetta Poltronieri1 Ivana Truccolo2 Corrado Di Benedetto3 Mauro Castelli4 Mauro Mazzocut2 Gaetana Cognetti5 Abstract Background The Open Archive Initiative OAI refers to a movement started around the 90s to guarantee free access to scientific information by removing the barriers to research results especially those related to the ever increasing journal subscription prices. This new paradigm has reshaped the scholarly communication system and is closely connected to the build up of institutional repositories IRs conceived to the benefit of scientists and research bodies as a means to keep possession of their own literary production. The IRs are high-value tools which permit authors to gain visibility by enabling rapid access to scientific material not only publications thus increasing impact citation rate and permitting a multidimensional assessment of research findings. Methods A survey was conducted in March 2010 to mainly explore the managing system in use for archiving the research finding adopted by the Italian Scientific Institutes for Research Hospitalization and Health Care IRCCS of the oncology area within the Italian National Health Service Servizio Sanitario Nazionale SSN . They were asked to respond to a questionnaire intended to collect data about institutional archives metadata formats and posting of full-text documents. The enquiry concerned also the perceived role of the institutional repository DSpace ISS built up by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS and based on a XML scheme for encoding metadata. Such a repository aims at acting as a unique reference point for the biomedical information produced by the Italian research institutions. An .